Elizabeth R. Varon (Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American Hi

Appomattox

Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War

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Produktbeschreibung

A revisionist narrative of Appomattox, the surrender of the Confederacy to the Union.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 164mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 584g
• ISBN-13: 9780199751716
• ISBN-10: 0199751714
• Artikelnr.: 38031520

Autorenporträt

Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History at the University of Virginia. Author of Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859, Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, A Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy, and We Mean to be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
Part One: Battlefront
Ch 1 No Escape
Ch 2 Councils of War
Ch 3 The Surrender Conference
Ch 4 Rank-and-File
Part Two: Homefront
Ch 5: Tidings of Peace
Ch 6: Victory and Mourning
Ch 7: Defeat and Liberation
Part Three: Aftermath
Ch 8: The Trials of Robert E. Lee
Ch 9: The Education of U.S. Grant
Epilogue: The Apple Tree
Notes
Bibliography
Index